1212 Three new species of Monkey. [No. .108. 



present or absent (a trivial idle mark) ; canines variable, large only in 

 grown males, for the most part ; stomach sacculated and banded as 

 well as intestine ; tail very long, commonly tufted, and usually exceed- 

 ing the length of the animal. Very agile; grave deportment; gregari- 

 ous ; not docile. 



Species new. Schistaceus hodie (Nipalerlsis of Catalogue). Habit of 

 Maurus. Dark slaty above ; below and the entire head, pale yellow ; mere 

 hands and feet somewhat darkened or concolorous with the body above ; 

 a pencil of black hairs radiating upwards from the brows ; concolorous ; 

 tail longer than the body, and more or less tufted ; skin black ; nude on 

 face, and on last phalanges of anterior digits ; hair on the crown short 

 and radiated, on the cheeks long, directed back, and hiding the ears ; 

 piles or fur of one sort, nor harsh, nor soft, more or less wavy, three to 

 five and a half inches long on the body, closer and shorter on the tapered 

 tail : thirty inches long : tail without the hair, thirty-six : hand six and 

 a half; foot eight and a half Females smaller, with shorter canines. 

 Habitatt. Tarai forest and lower hills, rarely the Kachar also. 



Genus Macacus. 

 Pithex (TItOjjc;, antiq.) nobis. 



Generic character. Facial angle 50. Muzzle not elongated ; cal- 

 losities large ; buttocks often nude ; structure compacter, but generally 

 resembling that of Semnopithecus, only that the thumbs are larger ; the 

 orbits more salient; the head rounder; cheek pouches distinct and large ; 

 the canines similarly variable, being large and grooved in grown males 

 only ; the nares short, round, and terminal ; the stomach simple, though 

 the coecum and rectum be sacculated ; and, lastly, the tail shorter, 

 though usually equal to half the length of the animals. Agile ; lively ; 

 gregarious ; familiar ; intelligent ; and very docile in confinement. 



1st. Species, new. Oinops (otvw;/') nob. (Nipalensis* of Catalogue), 

 Tail, without the hair, half the length of the entire animal ; ears partially 

 exposed ; buttocks posteally nude, and like the face, carneous red ; 

 colour of fur a full brownish yellow-red or deep rusty, passing into slaty 

 grey on the anterior quarters, and purpurescent slaty internally. Twenty- 

 two inches long. Tail, without the hair, ten ; hand four and a half ; foot 

 six ; pile or fur of one sort, as in the last, and of like quality and set 



* Topical names dropt, as seldom appropriate. 



